It might not make that big of a difference, but today I marked a few old posts as “Private”. The posts contain keywords used by visitors here, and include the name of a Chinese actress, who made quite a stir by posing the mistress of a Japanese sympathiser in a Chinese movie from 2008. In […]

So after reading up on the net, I have decided yet another attempt to minimize auth plugins when people comment. I really hate the idea of us (I had to write the annoying codes too, you know?) having to do extra work to comment on an article, but came up short every time I tried […]

Yeah yeah, it was hard to come up with a headline… so what. 2 days ago this blog was spammed with 256 comments from the same IP. It was the usual stuff offering me easy access to online casinos, “medicine” sellers and you know the drill. I have no idea how it happened. Usually ReCaptcha […]

I have now disabled Akismet spam protection on this blog and hope the best. Akismet have done a good job so far, but now it seems that it is surpassed by the spambots. The spam comments still fill my “waiting for approval” queue, and I find it annoying to go through these to sort out […]

Freshly stolen from HaoHaoReport, I decided to change my old spam protection plugin Captcha, with a newer one. Very fittingly the new one is called ReCaptcha. According to what I’ve read, this one should be better than the old one, as the spambots have learned to see through (read) the letters and numbers produced by […]